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Author: Maria Paz de Hoz

CAPInv. 876: doumos

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Lydia
iii. Site Saittai

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) δοῦμος (TAM V.1 179, l.3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) doumos

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 172 / 173 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Other:The name doumos alone doesn't mean more than assembly or council, though in some instances it is defined as hieros, sacred (see XII.i Comments).
iii. Descriptive terms .

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) TAM V.1 179 (172 / 173 AD)
Online Resources TAM V.1 179
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedication of an altar by an association and through the naukoros (TAM V.1 179, l. 4)
i.c. Physical format(s) Altar
ii. Source(s) provenance Saittai

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects Reference to the altar in the inscription that is engraved on it.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials The mentioned ναύκορος, naukoros, ‘temple warden’ is probably a member of the association. The naukoros is in this case femenine, as the one in the inscription TAM V.1 269 dedicated to a goddess, probably Anaitis.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The association must have funds in order to dedicate an altar ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων, ek ton idion, ‘at its own expenses’.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Women
Note If the mentioned naukoros is a member of the association, women are (also?) members of it. No other person, either man or woman, is mentioned in the inscription.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The mention of a naukoros and the dedication of an altar are signs of worship activity and make it possible that the association is a cult association.
Deities worshipped The other evidence of a naukoros in Lydia (TAM V.1 269) is related to the cult of a goddess, probably Anaitis. A hieros doumos related to Artemis Anaitis is attested in Ayazviran (also in north-east Lydia) in the year 223/4 AD.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments It could be a cult association. Cf. comment to deities worshipped.

The word hieros doumos is attested mainly in Lydian-Phrygian Asia Minor, but there are also evidences from
Thessaloniki and the Balkans, cf. Lajtar 1992: 211f. (= IG X2, 860). For the meaning and etymology of the term cf. Buresch 1898: 59-60, 62ff. (He thinks the origin of the name is Lydian); Neumann, G. (1988), Sitzungsberichte der Öst. Ak. d. Wiss . Wien, 12f. (He reconstructs the Phrygian word
doumetas as ‘member of the doumos, i.e. the counsil of men in a village’; Voutiras 1992: 88-90 with further references; BE 1992: 202, 314. For the possibility of hieros doumos meaning the same as symbiosis cf. TAM V.1 536, 537.
iii. Bibliography Buresch, K. (1898), Aus Lydien: epigraphisch-geographische Reisefrüchte. Leibzig.
de Hoz, M.-P. (1999), Die Lydischen Kulte im Lichte der griechischen Inschriften. Bonn, no. 63.13.
Fontrier, A. (1886), Mouseion 6: 76, no. 564.
Łajtar, A. (1992), ‘Ein zweiter Beleg fur δοῦμος in Thessalonike’ ZPE 94: 211-2.
Voutiras, E (1992), ‘Berufs- und Kultverein: Ein δουμοϲ in Thessalonike’, ZPE 90: 87-96

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The probability that the association is related to the cult of Artemis Anaitis or to another cult makes its private character probable. Nevertheless, the name of the association is stated only as doumos, like in TAM V.1 449 and 536 (in both cases: hieros doumos), which makes it possible that the association was a public one (cf. the interpretation of Neumann) that worships different gods from its locality.